Reducing bounce

via sleeves

Enhancing performance for printers in a sustainable way.

Trelleborg's printing solutions operation is a leading global supplier of unique customer solutions for polymer-coated fabrics deployed in offset, flexo and digital printing applications, as well as offering rollers & belts for converting applications.

Trelleborg’s printing solutions operation is part of the Trelleborg Coated Systems business area of Trelleborg Group. It has over 50 years of experience in the printing industry. This knowledge is combined with innovative technology, patented processes, vertical integration and total quality management. Offering first class solutions for the printing industry worldwide, Vulcan®, Rollin®, Printec® and Sava are brand leaders, providing offset printing blankets for newspapers, magazines and catalogues, business forms, metal decorating and packaging markets plus a wide range of printing blankets for special printing machines. Trelleborg printing blankets are suitable for all kind of inks: conventional, hybrid and UV.

At Trelleborg we design and manufacture a wide product range of mounting sleeves, known as Axcyl, for the flexographic printing machines. Trelleborg manufactures wide web and narrow web plate mounting sleeves since more than 20 years, with an average life span of 10 years. Thanks to their unique composite honeycomb structure, Axcyl flexo sleeves are the lightest, the stiffest and also the most stable of the market. Specially designed mounting layer has been optimized to filter vibration coming from the printing plate: Trelleborg offers less press bounce, thus higher productivity.

Trelleborg comprises five business areas: Trelleborg Coated Systems, Trelleborg Industrial Solutions, Trelleborg Offshore & Construction, Trelleborg Sealing Solutions and Trelleborg Wheel Systems. The Business Areas are divided into Business Units, which in turn comprise a number of Product Areas.

Printing News, Events & Case Studies

These pages are one of the touch points for partner and printers. You can find latest product developments, events and trade shows, cases studies and the voice of printing experts. Trelleborg is a global partner with a local reach thanks to its network of professional distributors in offset and flexo printing.

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Printing efficiently and sustainably

Are you looking for the right solution for your printing press? Trelleborg offers high-performance and application validated printing solutions, including printing blankets, coating plates, mounting sleeves and squeegees for screen printing. Your benefits? A wide products selection, the perfect match of printing solution and individual print requirements and the highest level of technical support. Watch the video clip here below and email us using the contact form.

Printers’ choice of offset printing blankets for any need

Vulcan®, Rollin®, Printec® and Sava® are your brands for offset printing blankets. The offer includes solutions for sheetfed, web heatset and coldset, metal decorating, packaging and solutions for special applications, as such business forms and security printing. Printers might also select among a wide range of coating plates, rubber and polymer based, for coating and varnishing and a new generation of printing blankets for low energy UV printing.

Solutions for flexo printers

Axcyl® is the Trelleborg offer for flexographic printers. It is composed by bridge sleeves with air holes ventilation, repeat build up sleeves, thin sleeves for plate mounting and new generation of carbon fiber bridge sleeves

Applications

Printers looking for solutions matching specific print requirements can now find the product that perfect match the need. With a clear and easy selection guide, Trelleborg presents technical data and performance of Vulcan, Rollin, Printec and Sava blankets for all the following applications: paper and cardboard packaging, metal packaging and plastic pot, magazines, books, catalogues, advertising, newspaper and any kind of business form and label. The new coating fabric-less plate range, recently added into the offer, allows to enhance the printing quality for aqueous and UV varnishing applications. Plate mounting sleeves for narrow and wide web flexo printing presses, complete the offer.

At Trelleborg you can also find solutions for tissue converting and textile shrinking applications. Rubber-covered rollers and rubber belts are manufactured in Europe and are delivered in many countries, from Europe to overseas.

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